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DNA test request denied for man claiming innocence in 2003 rape conviction
A federal judge on Friday denied access to DNA evidence that defense lawyers say will exonerate a man whose 2003 conviction of a heinous rape at a Lakewood trailer park rape largely relied on the testimony of a former Colorado Bureau of Investigation scientist who was forced to resign last year for manipulating DNA data in…
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Accusations of flawed Colorado crime lab work haunt 2003 rape conviction
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Every Saturday, the call comes in at 10:30 a.m., on the dot. Vinnie Chacon knows that’s when her 64-year-old brother James Hunter will telephone her from Colorado’s Territorial Correctional Facility in Cañon City. Hunter has been incarcerated for more than 21 years, ever since his…
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Accusations of flawed Colorado crime lab work haunt 2003 rape conviction
Every Saturday, the call comes in at 10:30 a.m., on the dot. Vinnie Chacon knows that’s when her 64-year-old brother James Hunter will telephone her from Colorado’s Territorial Correctional Facility in Cañon City. Hunter has been incarcerated for more than 21 years, ever since his 2003 conviction and sentence of 168 years in prison for…
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DNA state crime lab debacle leads to first hearing alleging innocence
Yvonne “Missy” Woods was nearly nine years into her career as a DNA scientist with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation when she took the stand on Oct. 17, 2002, to admit a major embarrassment in her work – one she testified came as a “blow to my ego.” A masked man, using what police said…
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DNA state crime lab debacle leads to first hearing alleging innocence
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Yvonne “Missy” Woods was nearly nine years into her career as a DNA scientist with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation when she took the stand on Oct. 17, 2002, to admit a major embarrassment in her work – one she testified came as a “blow…
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DNA state crime lab debacle leads to first hearing alleging innocence
Yvonne “Missy” Woods was nearly nine years into her career as a DNA scientist with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation when she took the stand on Oct. 17, 2002, to admit a major embarrassment in her work – one she testified came as a “blow to my ego.” A masked man, using what police said…